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"Quite new; 'brand' new, in fact; a present fro from New York I may as well admit that this is ood time I expect you to drink

in with this cocktail,

composed--would you say 'composed?'" with an appeal to Miss

Mayblunt--"co"

Before each guest stood a tiny glass that looked and sparkled like a

garnet geht not be a the Colonel's health in the cocktail which he

co of woh at this sally was such a genuine outburst and so

contagious that it started the dinner with an agreeable swing that never

slackened

Miss Mayblunt begged to be allowed to keep her cocktail untouched before

her, just to look at The color wasshe had ever seen, and the garnet lights which it emitted were

unspeakably rare She pronounced the Colonel an artist, and stuck to it

Monsieur Ratignolle was prepared to take things seriously; the mets, the

entre-mets, the service, the decorations, even the people He looked

up from his poentleman of that name who formed one of the fir man admitted that Laitner was a warm personal friend,

who permitted Arobin's name to decorate the firraced Perdido Street

"There are so ," said